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Summary: Semi-perfect!!!
Review: Just like my title, I thought this book was only semi-perfect because...THEY LEFT ME HANGIN'! I guess it's a good way to get you to buy the next book. But besides that I thought it was a very good book. Garth Nix is a very good writer and I can't wait for Abhorsen to come out. His detail makes you feel as if you really are in the book. The Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre creates a perfect world for Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen to be in.
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Summary: Lirial
Review: Just like it's prequill I would give this book full marks. 5 stars. It is amazing how good of an auther garth nix is. It's wonderful how he can incorperate his first book sabrial into is sequil. It shows how good of a writer he is. This book is about a young clayr girlnamed lyrial. She has not gained all clayrs right to the sight. The sight is the power to see into the future. This distersses her because she has to do everything with small childern untill she gains the sight. She is still Treated as a child untill she gets it. One day the clayr see her go on a long journy and help the prince councker an evil necromancer and save the princes best friand. So now she is on an unimaginable jorny through time and death. She must deafeat on of the greater dead who rule themselves. Or do they.
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Summary: Amazingly good
Review: Like its predecessor Sabriel, this book is great. Lirael is a wonderful character - realistic, likeable, curious, intellectual, easy to empathesize with, yet strong and sensible. Someone you'd like to hang out with. Similiarly the rest of the cast shines; I have trouble trying to point out a single poorly drawn character that's essential to the plot. The story is satisfyingly full of mysteries and secrets and adventure - I literally could not stop turning the pages until I got to the end. Even though the book does not finish the tasks set out for the good guys, the end is still climatic. Like many of the other readers who've written reviews here, I too am waiting on tetherhooks for "Abhorsen", the final book (or so I'm told) of this so far magnificently written trilogy.
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Summary: Why does everyone hate Sameth?
Review: I loved this book. It's probably my favorite by Garth Nix. It had more action in it than the first book, Sabriel, did (probably due to this book's lack of romance, unlike Sabriel). I can't wait until Abhorsen comes out... but I'll keep reading Broken Sky until then...
Hey, why does everyone keep saying that Sameth is stupid? I felt bad for him. Okay, maybe he was too afraid to become Abhorsen, but you can't blame him. *enough* Ahem. I'm writing a review. On with it, then!
In Lirael, the two heroes, Lirael and Sameth (who is the son of Touchstone and Sabriel) are trying to find Hedge, and evil necromancer dude, and Sameth's friend (I think his name was Nick but I'm not sure). If you like fantasy, read it. If you like books, read it. JUST READ IT PEOPLES!!!!
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Summary: Nix stays on top
Review: Garth Nix's Lirael continues the story he started in Sabriel, and -like Sabriel-keeps you hanging till the end. Nix is adept at teaching you everything about his world without slowing the plot at all. Jumping between the lives of Lirael and young Prince Sameth does nothing to hurt the book either. More humor than the first does not quite compensate for slightly less action than Sabriel, but the lack of action is to be expected, as Lirael is a lead-up to the climax in Abhorsen (Sept. 2002 in America and Australia.) If you loved Sabriel, you'll like or love Lirael, with its familiar characters (Sabriel, Touchstone, Mogget, and the Clayr sisters Ryelle and Saneth) and its new, younger generation. Lirael herself is a young Clayr living in the seers' expansive glacier. She has yet to obtain the Sight of the future that is a staple among Clayr her age, and this leads her to grief and despair, as she just wants to fit in. Prince Sameth, the supposed heir to Abhorsen Sabriel (he is the son of Sabriel and Touchstone), is another bearer of Great Charter blood experiencing society pressure, he too despairs of meeting expectations. The reader also learns more of the Old Kingdom's history, and the more one learns, the more one worries about the item that Sameth's Ancellestierrian friend Nick is digging up, near the Red Lake. A plot against all who bear the charter mark is under way, but who will stop it? A reader knows this from near the beginning, and learns more along the way, as Nix tells just enough with each scene to keep the reader turning those pages. This book earns its keep, and I guarantee that almost any reader will be sorry when this book is over.
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Summary: Stupid Prince only wastes pages!!
Review: I LOVED Lirael, to enjoy it to its fullest read Sabriel first or else you won't get it. I am really glad that Abhorsen is supposed to give more info on Lirael's years as a libraian because its going to be so cool! (...) I personally found the tone more exiciting whenever Lirael was involved. Anyway I recomend everyone read this book! Its not as kiddish as Harry PP, and the setting and writing is (IMHO) much better!!
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Summary: A wonderful Book!!!
Review: This book was so great I mean it was better than that!!
I couldn't put the book down once I began it and even stayed up at all hours just to see what would happen next. This book is great for all ages old or young!!
This sequal fits excelently in place to the first book Sabriel!!
Though I sent Garth Nix a fan letter and I didn't get a response recomend not doing that if I were you(though I'm not, so how would I know)
Strongly recomend this book to everyone and anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Drawn out...
Review: Lirael is Garth Nix's continuation of Sabriel which shall apparently be followed by a third book by the name of Abhorsen. With Lirael, he begins flesh out the world created in Sabriel and lays down the groundwork for what could be an epic series that could perhaps stretch across numerous volumes. Lirael is probably strong enough to stand on its own... though it is highly recommended that one begin with Sabriel in order to catch the richness of Nix's world that includes a wonderful play between two areas: one steeped in early twentieth century technology and the other basking in the heights of fantasy. In the course of the book we discover Lirael, daughter of the Clayr who wines because it seems she will never meet the desires of her tribe because she lacks vision to see into the future. We also run across Prince Sameth, who is scared of his expected destiny as Abhorsen-in-waiting (a necromancer whose job is to keep the dead, dead). Aside from the pity parties that fill a good portion of the book, there are numerous exciting encounters with monsters... though none of them seem to be as dark and forbidding as the encounters in Sabriel. Lirael is well worth the read, though it is not quite as exciting as Sabriel. I look forward to Abhorsen and hopefully some more exciting plot developments. Crazy James
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Summary: Truly Amazing. Couldn't put it down
Review: I just read Sabriel and couldn't believe how much I loved it. Then I discovered to my suprise that a sequel had been written. This sequel being Lirael. I have read this book and let me tell you, it's amazing. This book reads like real life, Nix has created such a deep and believable world that you come to the illusion that the action is truly taking place. His characters are sooo believable and well developed. If you enjoyed Sabriel there is absolutely no reason for you not to read this book. I personally enjoyed it just as much as its successor and I await non-patiently for the final book of the series "Abhorsen". The way this book builds is amazing and I know that all will love it. Sit down and read it, but not if you are going to be having to leave the house any time within the next 2 hours because..you'll never put it down.
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Summary: Garth nix spins us a masterpiece
Review: First the fantastic Sabriel and then Lirael. It was pretty lucky of me to read Sabriel and then have Lirael come out a month later becasue I could not have waited five years. If it is an original book you are looking for than try Garth Nix. Now we just have to wait for Abhorsen...
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